Some aspects of the Neogene floral history in Greece

Velitzelos, E.; Gregor, Hans-Joachim

doi:10.1016/0034-6667(90)90092-w

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“…Some species of Platanus dating back to the Upper Miocene were found in Macedonia/Thrace (N Greece) and on Island of Corfu. Platanus was also found in several sites of Pliocene age (Velitzelos & Gregor 1990). Its presence was confirmed by the finding, on the Island of Rhodes, of Pleistocene macrofossils attributed to Platanus lineariloba (syn.…”

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“…Macrofossils belonging to several species of Platanus were found in the Tertiary of several European countries, e.g. P. neptuni from the Palaeocene/Eocene of Scotland, from Eocene of Germany and Czech Republic and from the Oligocene of Germany (Kvaček 2010), Serbia (Djordjević-Milutinović & Dulić 2009) and Greece (Velitzelos & Gregor 1990;Velitzelos et al 2014); P. schimperi from the Palaeocene of France and England (Kvaček 2010); P. leucophylla from upper Miocene and Pliocene of Italy (Martinetto et al 2007;Bertini & Martinetto 2008) and Greece (Velitzelos et al 2014); and P. academiae from upper Miocene and Pliocene of Greece (Velitzelos et al 2014). …”

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Under the shadow of a big plane tree: WhyPlatanus orientalisshould be considered an archaeophyte in Italy

Rosati

Masi

Giardini

et al. 2015

Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all As

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In Italy, Platanus orientalis L. is judged as an endangered species by some authors and non-native by others: these contrasting assessments can mislead the prioritization of management actions to preserve the species and the riparian vegetation that is its host. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, including palaeobotanical and ecological information, we assessed its status in Italy including the ecological and conservation value of the riparian plant communities hosting it in the Cilento National Park (S-Italy). Palaeobotanical data showed that P. orientalis in Italy should be considered an archaeophyte. According to the ecological assessment of the riparian plant communities hosting P. orientalis, the presence of the species can be interpreted as an indicator of an unfavourable state for the conservation of riparian vegetation. Knowing the status of a species remains one of the first steps to take to correctly propose scientifically based solutions for the conservation of plant diversity. However, there are no absolute criteria for conservation because all conservation objectives can be considered as cultural values. In this context, P. orientalis should be protected as a symbolic tree, an archaeophyte testifying an ancient common Mediterranean cultural heritage, worthy of preservation but outside of natural habitats.

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Under the shadow of a big plane tree: WhyPlatanus orientalisshould be considered an archaeophyte in Italy

Rosati

Masi

Giardini

et al. 2015

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“…D N72 genetic dissimilarity coefficient values were calculated with POPGENE ver. 1.32 (Yeh and Boyle, 1997 (Pons, 1981;Palamarev, 1989;Velitzelos and Gregor, 1990;Givulescu and Barbu, 1999;Palamarev et al, 2005;KovarEder et al, 2006;Dransfield et al, 2008;Carrión, 2012; and references cited therein). To our knowledge, there are no fossil records from N Africa.…”

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Patterns of phylogeography and vicariance of Chamaerops humilis L. (Palmae)

García-Castaño¹,

Terrab²,

Ortiz³

et al. 2014

Turk J Bot

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IntroductionDramatic changes in the past 30 million years (Ma) in the West Mediterranean region have taken place in geology and climate, resulting in significant biogeographic impacts. The closing of the Tethys Sea, the isolation of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean, and the more recent Pleistocene glaciations are only 3 of the more prominent events that have affected plant distributions in this region (Thompson, 2005). It is not surprising, therefore, that a number of investigations have attempted to understand better the biogeographic and evolutionary implications in different species within this dynamic region (Ortiz et al., 2009). One of the most precise means of revealing the biogeographic history of plants within any region is the use of molecular markers at the population level. The spatial distribution of alleles for which phylogenetic relationships can be estimated is referred to as phylogeography (Avise, 2000). Markers often employed in these studies are haplotypes from the chloroplast genome as well as microsatellites (plastid and/or nuclear) and amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs).

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“…3) [24], plant remains [25] and charophytes [26]. The Komnina Formation is V300 m thick; it unconformably overlies the pre-Neogene basement and is predominantly composed of £uvial sands and conglomerates, and lacustrine (diatomaceous) marls and clays, with some intercalated lignite seams.…”

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Refinement of the Messinian APTS from sedimentary cycle patterns in the lacustrine Lava section (Servia Basin, NW Greece)

Steenbrink

Vugt

Hoeve

et al. 2000

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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A high-resolution cyclostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy is presented for the Messinian lacustrine Lava section from the Servia Basin in NW Greece, constraining more precisely the absolute ages of magnetic polarity subchrons C3An.1n and C3An.2n. The section contains 15 distinct sedimentary cycles of alternating dark-and light-coloured marls, while the gamma-ray attenuation record reveals an additional five to six cycles. The cycles in the lower half of the section are on average 5.3 m thick, as opposed to the cycles in the upper part, which have an average thickness of 3.1 m. Palynological results define the lithological alternations in both the lower and upper cycles in terms of periodic changes in humidity, where the light marls represent the humid periods and the dark marls the relatively dry periods. Changes in cycle thickness and shifts in average gamma-ray values suggest a rather abrupt decrease in sedimentation rate at V60 m in the section. This is confirmed by the magnetostratigraphy, which recorded four reversals, which^given the biostratigraphic constraints from the Lava locality^could be correlated unambiguously to subchrons C3An.1n and C3An.2n of the geomagnetic polarity time scale. With this magnetostratigraphic time control, the average duration of the cycles can be calculated to be constant in the entire section, and similar to precession. The astronomical origin of the cycles is confirmed by the results of spectral analyses of gamma-ray and susceptibility time series. The sedimentary cycles in the upper part of the Lava section are unambiguously tuned to insolation using the typical clustering of the cycles that follows the eccentricity cycle. The filtered gamma-ray record centred at 41 kyr confirms the tuning in the upper part and allows tuning of the lower part. The tuning results in accurate ages for the sedimentary cycles and polarity reversals that confirm the astronomical tuning of [Krijgsman et al., Nature 400 (1999) 652^655], but define more precisely the astronomical polarity time scale. ß

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Some aspects of the Neogene floral history in Greece

Cited by 55 publications

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Under the shadow of a big plane tree: WhyPlatanus orientalisshould be considered an archaeophyte in Italy

Under the shadow of a big plane tree: WhyPlatanus orientalisshould be considered an archaeophyte in Italy

Patterns of phylogeography and vicariance of Chamaerops humilis L. (Palmae)

Refinement of the Messinian APTS from sedimentary cycle patterns in the lacustrine Lava section (Servia Basin, NW Greece)

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